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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Making my own beads

For a long time I have been thinking about making my own beads. Well over a decade ago I remember making some glass beads with a friend who had a kit. However, for similar reasons that I am not pursuing soldering and silver work at home (i.e I live in a tiny NYC apartment with bad ventilation), glass didn't seem the way to go for the moment.
So I decided to start with polymer clay. I started out by just playing around with some color mixing, but I like the result:

And then I decided to make a butterfly. Not bad for a first day's try.

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Welcome to Secret Song Designs

Secret Song Designs features handmade jewelry and other items.Primarily my projects involve a combination of seed, glass and semi precious beads. Recently I have also begun to learn to work with silver.